Long Hatred

September 24, 1989|By Frank H. Marks.

CHICAGO — The deluge of humanity pouring out of East Germany the instant a breach appears in the ``Iron Curtain`` is no surprise to me, as a member of the 7th Army, which entered Germany in the spring of 1945, shortly before the German capitulation.

Every wall large enough to carry it bore the slogan: ``VICTORY-or BOLSHEVIST CHAOS`` in long-weathered German letters. Throughout the past 44 years I`ve wondered how the Germans in East Germany could be supporting the Reds, considering that the Nazis came to power largely on their avowed hatred of communism and Jews, and lost millions of men fighting Russians on the East front for a major part of the war, and, shortly prior to their surrender proposed that the Allies team up with them against the USSR.